Well, I suspect there is a design or manufacuring flaw at work here that is not being replicated often enough for Triumph to consider worth investigating. I don't know how many Americas have been made, but there are only less than thirty of us discussing this topic. Obviously there are many owners that don't visit this site, but how many more, and do they have/have they had this problem. I will email Gill as suggested above but have no expectation that they will respond.
In any manufacturing process you will have an allowable rate of failure. ( Unless it is NASA)
For me, the next time this thing fails, I'm going to replace it and sell the bike. Hard to do, cause it was the bike I was going to keep until one of us died, but $600 bucks for a set of what I consider points is over the top.
